Re: speed up large library linking

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> - Use of `non-standard' utilities.
> I have thought about the possibility of replacing the whole `fold' and
> `split'-using stuff with `xargs' (which _is_ mentioned in GCS), but am
> not yet sure whether that works.  Should I look into it?
>
> `join' and `paste' are used in the rename algo only.  As already
> mentioned, we could add the old algorithm as a fallback.
>
> All of the utilities are required by POSIX/SUSv3.

Bob address@hidden ~/mingw/GraphicsMagick-8-static
$ join --version
sh: join: command not found

Bob address@hidden ~/mingw/GraphicsMagick-8-static
$ paste --version
sh: paste: command not found

Bob address@hidden ~/mingw/GraphicsMagick-8-static
$ xargs --version
GNU xargs version 4.1

Bob address@hidden ~/mingw/GraphicsMagick-8-static
$ uname -a
MINGW32_NT-5.1 VELMA 1.0.10(0.46/3/2) 2004-03-15 07:17 i686 unknown

So, the MSYS environment provides xargs but not join and paste.  This 
is pretty much what I would expect.

Bob
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